I think your darker background tones are more pleasing than the lighter ones that I seem to remember you using before. I'm probably mistaken about the earlier ones - my memory isn't what it used to be, not that I think I remember the memory as being particularly good in the first place when it was young. But as it is, the background works very nicely with the skins.

I have a problem about the guy: isn't he missing something, what with gravity and all...?

I like the shot, Rob, but I can't avoid a nagging feeling that you might be stretching the word "Recent" just a tad far.

Jeremy

Jeremy, 'recent' is a comparative term; at my age, recent isn't the same as for a newborn babe. My mother told me, approaching her nineties, that she was still twenty-seven or so; I believed her then and I now know she was telling the truth.

Goddamit, we still make and look at documentaries about (classical) Roman mistesses, wives and mothers! If two thousand years is but the batting of an eyelid, what's a few long months or, alternatively, short years? (We may make movies about recent Roman ladies too, but I can't vouch for that because I haven't been in a cinema since Thunderball because the print I was attempting to watch was OOF and the manager, when I went to complain, said it wasn't.)

;-)

Anyway, it's light relief from other things. Such as taxes and cerebral battles about photographic morality and honesty - a paradox, no doubt - in the art world.

"Photography is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent moving furniture." Arnold NewmanDon't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner

There some breast's in the picture and some let every measure of time and space go. Some are so brutally honest with themselves. There's no wink wink or other emoticon connected to my post.

There are many images of topless girls everywhere. Not many of them have the sensuality of Rob's photographs. And I admit that the girl theme in photography alway attracted me. And I love the (Mediterranean) sea. Both combined is wonderful.

Eric, it is just a 14'x21' living room with seamless 9.5 feet paper background. When I am done with the Levitation series, I might share the custom-designed support built with plumbing pipes and a few hoses from the dish-washing machine all for $60 @homedepot

Great images Joe but poor timing if you wanted anyone to pay attention. It'll take a couple of days for this predominantly male forum to get over the breasts that preceded your post.

You're an optimist, K.C.

I was there, shot the shots and still haven't got over either the breasts or the times. All I know is that both were real, and that in the case of the Greek ones, their owner and my wife later spent time in Cannes discussing the rash of identical Arabian ones being sported along the edges of the pool of the Montfleury Hotel where we were staying on another shoot (identical, not in the sense of being simliar to the model's but that a common design ran through the Arabian ones; you learn so much with travel. We firmly believed Slazenger had a hand in it).